Boston society is described by Ralph Waldo Emerson

In his Journal, Emerson writes, “Life in Boston: A play in two acts, Youth & Age, dancing school, Sets, parties, picture galleries, sleighrides, Nahant, Saratoga Springs, lectures, concerts, sets through them all, solicitude & poetry, friendship, ennui, desolation, decline, meanness, plausibility, old age, death.”